The role of the performance development tutor is part-time and flexible. The time and contribution required between May 2012 and July 2013 is between 40 and 50 days. The activities and timetable for involvement are determined by the WorldSkills Competition [...]

The Chancellor adjusted spending and income totals between different years but presented the budget as being “fiscally neutral over the Spending review period”. In other words, any reductions in tax income or spending increases funded from existing totals. He said [...]

Nathan Partridge, an Entry Level 3 student at BCA near Maidenhead, collected the first prize for designing a poster around the theme of Keeping Safe.  Nathan was  awarded £100 of Love to Shop vouchers in the competition that was sponsored [...]

Many of you contributed to the success of WorldSkills London 2011, but have you ever put forward your learners to compete in a national skills competition? 81 per cent of colleges interviewed by the Association of Colleges (AoC) strongly agreed [...]

WorldSkills are currently in the process of identifying potential competitors for training and development programmes for WorldSkills Leipzig 2013. The International Skills Development Team are specifically looking for candidates for the Caring Competition and have decided to scout for potential [...]

At the next meeting of the enterprise network, we are going to hear from Lesley Graham, Vice Principal of Curriculum and the Learner Experience at Barking and Dagenham College, who will be telling us about how enterprise is an integral [...]

Skills Minister John Hayes today set out the funding available to those undertaking initial teacher education (ITE) to teach in the Further Education (FE) and Skills sector. For 2012-13, bursaries of £1,000 will be introduced to enable up to 10,000 [...]

The Leg Care Clinic provides a professional learning environment for those studying Health and Social Care and Access to Nursing. This hands-on experience is essential as many universities will not accept students who wish to study a nursing profession or [...]

8 South East Colleges, AOSEC and Sport England are currently running a pilot project called ‘The Sports Ambassadors Gold Challenge’. The project will test a number of models for electing student Sports Council members within colleges in order to stimulate [...]

This week sees the launch of the UK’s biggest national skills and careers event – The Skills Show.   The Skills Show will be between 15th and 17th November, 2012 and will be held at the NEC Birmingham.   The [...]